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		Constance Petersen Organization: CEO, SoftMedia Artisans, Inc. Web Site: Smartisans.com Email: constance@smartisans.com

Constance Petersen is the CEO and creative director of SoftMedia Artisans, Inc., a company she founded in Atlanta in 1997 with her husband, Lynn Torkelson. A Wisconsin native, she grew up near Lake Michigan--in Door County during the summers and in Racine the rest of the year. In January of 1999 she returned with her family and her company to the Great Lakes region of her youth.

A mathematician by training, Constance became a computer programmer shortly after graduating from college. Over the years she specialized in software design and usability. An award-winning photographer, Constance's talents also extend to technical writing. Her often-quoted articles have appeared in many respected technical magazines and journals, and she has co-authored two highly-regarded books on the Visual Basic programming language including the recent Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET, Apress, July 2002, ISBN 1590590279.

Constance designed the KeweenawNow Web site, which is showcased in her company's portfolio. She also assists the editor with technical questions and, on those occasions when a tidal wave of other work threatens to drown the editor, helps to update the content.

For more information about Constance, read her autobiography on the Smartisans.com Web site.

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Local Family Writes Book on Web Programming

Posted 08/15/2002

TORCH LAKE TOWNSHIP -- Zac Torkelson's first book went on sale on July 16th, just one day before his 15th birthday. He collaborated with his father, Lynn Torkelson, and mother, Constance Petersen, to create the 936-page book, Programming the Web with Visual Basic .NET published by Apress LP of Berkeley, California. more